Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c124d3c568e6150…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70eb3b2283c2b5c78ff4a2e26302fc84 SHA-1: 0ba4305e88059670809f1065296d9e7de9734232 SHA-256: 0c124d3c568e615032162bef19ebc9cb4ae77c891bba307f487b30931a535454
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as malicious redirectors or part of link farms designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely intended to deceive the user into clicking them. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=go%20verbs%20in%20spanish%20worksheet%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.roam-sick.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775959/8641264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degozar.oshkoshmainstreetmusicfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776177/lukepuwuxisofejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwunu.homecompanyservice.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406665/39751c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pitkincountyrivers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873787/nufizotulenasikamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8914/9608/files/discord_dating_servers_13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0209/9873/files/filepuminuzofejikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/94049158775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1777/files/killjoy_goes_to_hell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6726/8517/files/velutasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5321/files/doobie_brothers_another_park_another_sunday.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3690/8439/files/75051657584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4545/3985/files/historia_de_los_alimentos_transgenicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7923/6760/files/26781181940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1341/2760/files/business_english_tests.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E59 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 2cee828fc20a315a209ab9f508689960710439aa27be998bffa25ddf21877f5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000704d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x704D 10132 bytes
SHA-256: c033afc94296128800394af1fc179ae456d56748991b1ce2251e210294bfca83
font_02_sfnt_off00009305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9305 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f